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I've gotta say I think your pimping skills need work, phil. You -are- simply advertising here on the forums. That's not cool, that's just using the chat area to promote your product. If you want to advertise here, you should buy a banner ad or something like that. Or at LEAST post to the...

One of the problems with audio codecs is that they may require a rather large amount of floating point math calculation. Ogg Vorbis, an entirely free audio codec that has much clearer sound than WMA or MP3, has the limitation that the basic codec for it requires a lot of floating point math, and...

Bah, if Apple's going to do a PDA what they need to do is seperate the storage/memory/CPU from the screen by dropping Bluetooth in at both ends. IF that'd be fast enough for a screen, and the battery could be light and small enough. Stuff the brains of the unit deep in a pocket, then just keep...

10.2.1 is a very, very, very minor increase. Apple doesn't claim anyplace that I saw, that 10.2.1 was going to offer any speed. 10.2 offered a -lot- of speed difference, at least in feel, on my 500Mhz G3 laptop. Don't think of 10.2.1 as a Microsoft service pack, think of it as a collection of...

Yeah, that's why I figure it's more of a home refurb than a clone. :)

If it's using an Apple mainboard, is it a clone or just a DIY refurb?

If it has -any- Pentium, it's crap. Get an Athlon based one. Not a Duron, but an Athlon. Take it from someone whose 1Ghz Athlon is only 10% slower than his 1.6Ghz P4.

Don't be expecting super-quality videoconferencing just yet. You may have 1.5Mbit coming down from the net, but most everyone has only 128Kbit (Approximately 16K/sec) upload speed. That's not really enough for the kind of videoconferencing you're proposing. However, an iPhone application that...

This could just be the name of a new iApp. Teleconferencing/Videoconferencing on the Mac platform... sucks. Hard. It's the next big challenge to overcome. Even on Windows machines, it's a hodepodge of crappy software and incompatible networks. If Apple were to take the reins and offer a...

The astounding lack of thought put into pretty much all your posts on this topic truly amazes me. Really.

So far, it looks like a good idea. But you might get a little more recognition and interest in working on the site if you get a more Mac oriented domain name. Or at least one that isn't just your handle. :) S'why I went out and got my bowdownbefore.us domain, it could be good for a ton of...

Who keeps starting these threads when there're already others on the front page? :) At least this one seems to be a little more technical and less dogmatic. The G4 is definitely a much more efficient and well-designed chip than an x86 processor at the same clock rate. Unfortunately, with...

... Sigh.

As a pre-"Switch" switcher, who purchased my first Mac this past November, I have to say I've watched a lot of the trends from a technical perspective for several years. I've watched as Apple transitioned from the company that made the computers in my school, to the company that made computers...

I have an iBook with a rather low amount of RAM, and it's nice to have a bit more of a feeling just when my machine is needing to swap or load information in the background. It's also, definitely, useful for telling when my machine's just busy, or if it's actually stalled. The hard drive is...

I had, way back on 10.0.0.4 a copy of a little program that did nothing but flash an indicator on the upper left corner of the menu bar when the disk was being accessed, great for iBook use. I have no idea what this program was called, or whether it'll work on Jaguar. Anyone know anything?

From a design point of view, the other poster had it right. It was being put simply so that more people could understand what it meant. However, they were probably referring to the 9X lines of Windows when DOS really still was the basic core of it all. Darwin is not a subsystem - Apple likes...

That is a very good question, and I'd love to know if it's possible as well. My AirPort range runs out just about 30 feet away from the pizza joint next door. And dammit, I want to be able to get a pizza and be online at the same time. :) All I need is a few extra feet...

Jaguar is like a month early. Cope. :)

I've got to give it a four out of five, only losing a point because I feel really ripped about the price. On my iBook 500 with 192M, it's noticably faster with a shorter loading time.